To help continue the conversation, I've posted a comparison of three search tools that search over content from Canadian law firms: your Google Custom Search,
Fee Fie Foe Firm Canada, and Lexology.
Others may not be aware of a parallel search engine for law firms called
Fee Fie Foe Firm.
For quick access to commentary published by law firms, search the Canadian Law Firm Websites, Blogs & Journals and
Fee Fie Foe Firm Canada.
Damien McRae, a knowledge consultant from Australia and founder of
Fee Fie Foe Firm, has confirmed to me in an email that his site does in fact search / target 1500 selected Canadian law firms (as opposed to using some sort of automatic scraping of URLs).
I wrote to
Fee Fie Foe Firm back in September asking which Canadian firms they indexed.
Clearly,
Fee Fie Foe Firm has a number of advantages, including (apparently) being comprehensive and being multi-jurisdictional.
If that number is correct, I assume
Fee Fie Foe Firm is merely scraping URLs from some sort of list because I could not come close to trying to add that many Canadian law firm websites.
Drew Jackson at the BC Courthouse Library was kind enough to do a review here of my search engine (comparing it to
Fee Fie Foe Firm and Lexology; however, I was not able to verify how Drew determined that
Fee Fie Foe Firm searches 1500 Canadian law firm websites.
Fee Fie Foe Firm seems virtually the same (as far as I can tell, it IS the same — built with GSE), only with a slicker interface.
As well, sites such as
Fee Fie Foe Firm and Lexology allow searchers to find material published by law firms.
Not exact matches
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